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New comment by ghtbircshotbe in "Michael Burry says neither SpaceX nor Anthropic is worth $1T"

ghtbircshotbe — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 12:03:21 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33493662

New comment by ghtbircshotbe in "Int a = 5; a = a++ + ++a; a =? (2011)"

ghtbircshotbe — Fri, 15 May 2026 11:45:31 +0000

One of the things I like about Python is the lack of the increment operator.

New comment by ghtbircshotbe in "Starship V3"

ghtbircshotbe — Wed, 13 May 2026 13:23:13 +0000

If a decision is smart due to having access to non-public information, that is more a question of ignorance than intelligence.

I can think of all sorts of successful decisions that would definitely be stupid for a normal person to try, due to lack of connections, access to money, high risk, etc.

And maybe to expose my own lack of intelligence, I've always thought eg Robinhood was incredibly dumb. I never in a million years would have thought of the idea of creating an investing app, since there are already many of them, from far more reliable and trustworthy sources. And yet Robinhood has made its founders billions.

New comment by ghtbircshotbe in "The vi family"

ghtbircshotbe — Wed, 13 May 2026 13:04:30 +0000

That's fair, although now and then I have to do some repetitive task and using bufdo or a macro has saved a decent amount of time. And compared to something like notepad, all the little details probably save time. My average time savings has probably increased significantly after I stopped spending a lot of time creating custom vim scripts and syntax files.

New comment by ghtbircshotbe in "The One Dollar Counterfeiter"

ghtbircshotbe — Sun, 10 May 2026 14:29:38 +0000

What is neppy?

New comment by ghtbircshotbe in "US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid"

ghtbircshotbe — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:22:49 +0000

Can you provide a reference? From a Reuters article:

> prosecutors said Van Dyke bet more than $33,000 on Polymarket between December 27, 2025, and January 2, 2026, that Maduro would soon be out of office and that U.S. forces would soon enter Venezuela

Maduro was taken on January 3.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-soldier-charged-...

New comment by ghtbircshotbe in "US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid"

ghtbircshotbe — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:21:59 +0000

Many people here are talking about how more powerful people are also corrupt and are getting away with it. All corruption is bad. This soldier put the life of everyone on the mission in danger by doing this.

New comment by ghtbircshotbe in "NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers"

ghtbircshotbe — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 13:59:06 +0000

I get migraines and didn't have any problem. Bring unable to focus is more of a symptom or early warning rather than a trigger, at least for me. I'm not sure what the trigger is, maybe being dehydrated or something I ate.

New comment by ghtbircshotbe in "Fake Fans"

ghtbircshotbe — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:08:02 +0000

Lately when I watch a video on YouTube, every single one of the recommended videos is AI slop. Not sure what the next 5 years holds. It does make me question the argument that bad AI generated content is equivalent to bad human generated content. And they all have hundreds of thousands of views, another mystery.

New comment by ghtbircshotbe in "Good ideas do not need lots of lies in order to gain public acceptance (2008)"

ghtbircshotbe — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:17:44 +0000

With the current moon mission I'm reminded of how whenever someone from NASA is interviewed they like talking about how the billions spent are justified because of the practical results of the research - Velcro, Tang, etc. It always seemed like a stretch, but I have the unpleasant feeling the US is going to lean the true value of being the research leader when it's gone.

New comment by ghtbircshotbe in "Neanderthals survived on a knife's edge for 350k years"

ghtbircshotbe — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:58:21 +0000

I liked the recent Nova episode on neanderthals. They talked about how awful the last ice age was for the neanderthals despite being adapted to cold climates, and how modern humans survived it by staying away until it got warmer.

New comment by ghtbircshotbe in "Neovim 0.12.0"

ghtbircshotbe — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:28:04 +0000

I recently hit the fold level limit, which is hard coded into Vim at 20. I was disappointed that it's the same in neovim. I tried changing the Vim code and compiling from source but apparently it's not that simple because it still doesn't work (although it does behave differently).

I'm hitting the limit due to a system that uses lists of nested rules or decision trees.

New comment by ghtbircshotbe in "Libre Solar – Open Hardware for Renewable Energy"

ghtbircshotbe — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 13:50:42 +0000

There's nothing stopping a company from creating products based on these, and having them certified, assuming they satisfy the requirements for certification (which if they don't you probably don't want to put it in your house anyway). I'm not familiar with the cern hardware license, but it appears to allow commercialization.

New comment by ghtbircshotbe in "Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021)"

ghtbircshotbe — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 14:35:24 +0000

I don't really understand the first episode. The idea as far as I can tell is that it's illegal to use employees who reverse engineered the BIOS to clone the BIOS, but it's legal to hire someone new, who presumably is also going to have to reverse engineer the BIOS in order to clone it.

New comment by ghtbircshotbe in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me"

ghtbircshotbe — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 15:54:20 +0000

It almost makes me feel like using likes, karma, etc, isn't a good way to measure something's quality.

New comment by ghtbircshotbe in "Ring owners are returning their cameras"

ghtbircshotbe — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 15:35:17 +0000

I'm interested in the laws around these cameras. Is it illegal to record eg parts of your neighbor's private property? Are you liable or is Amazon?

New comment by ghtbircshotbe in "The wonder of modern drywall"

ghtbircshotbe — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 14:42:38 +0000

1. Is plaster and lath gypsum based? In my experience plaster is basically identical to stucco, which is basically just mortar with increasingly fine sand. It is very hard and completely unlike drywall.

2) Why emphasize asbestos when talking about plaster? My understanding is you likely have more to worry about if you have a house from say the 40s-70s, which almost universally have some sort of drywall product.

New comment by ghtbircshotbe in "Chrome extensions spying on users' browsing data"

ghtbircshotbe — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 14:51:52 +0000

That sounds right. I looked through the terms of the offer and it looked pretty onerous. I almost get the feeling they're trying to use my own hatred of the banks and desire to screw them out of $45 to trick me

New comment by ghtbircshotbe in "Lessons you will learn living in a snowy place"

ghtbircshotbe — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 14:28:59 +0000

Get boots a size too big to wear multiple layers of wool socks.

New comment by ghtbircshotbe in "Chrome extensions spying on users' browsing data"

ghtbircshotbe — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 14:18:59 +0000

Capital One just offered me $45 to install a Firefox extension. I declined, though I'm sort of tempted to get paid for getting spied on which I assume is happening anyway. And who knows, maybe I could get a couple more bucks later in the class action.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/wikibuy-for-f...